Taming the Beloved Beast
להגדלת הטקסט להקטנת הטקסט- ספר
Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. How can we deny people what they may need to live and flourish? Yet is it not also harmful to let rising costs strangle our health care system, eventually harming everyone? In Taming the Beloved Beast, esteemed medical ethicist Daniel Callahan confronts this dilemma head-on. He argues that we can't escape it by organizational changes alone. Nothing less than a fundamental transformation of our thinking about health care is needed to achieve lasting and economically sustainable reform. The technology bubble, he contends, is beginning to burst. Callahan weighs the ethical arguments for and against limiting the use of medical technologies, and he argues that reining in health care costs requires us to change entrenched values about progress and technological innovation. Taming the Beloved Beast shows that the cost crisis is as great as that of the uninsured. Only a government-regulated universal health care system can offer the hope of managing technology and making it affordable for all.
כותר |
Taming the Beloved Beast : How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System / Daniel Callahan. |
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מהדורה |
Course Book. |
מוציא לאור |
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press |
שנה |
[2009] |
הערות |
Description based upon print version of record. Issued also in print. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Medicare on the Ropes -- CHAPTER 2. Taming the Beloved Beast: Medical Technology -- CHAPTER 3. Getting Serious about Costs and Technology -- CHAPTER 4. Competition: The Fix That Will Fail -- CHAPTER 5. The Cohabitation of Medicine and Commerce -- CHAPTER 6. "Medical Necessity" -- CHAPTER 7. Redefining "Medical Necessity" -- CHAPTER 8. Getting Out from Under: The Politics of Pain -- Coda -- Notes -- Index |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (280 p.) |
שפה |
אנגלית |
שנת זכויות יוצרים |
©2009 |
מספר מערכת |
997010718689505171 |
תצוגת MARC
תגיות
- Insurance economics United States.
- Health Care Costs United States.
- Biomedical Technology economics United States.
- Medical technology Economic aspects United States.
- Medical care, Cost of United States.
- Health care technology
- Health technology
- Cost of medical care
- Health care costs
- Health care expenditures
- Medical care Costs
- Medical costs
- Medical expenses
- Medical service, Cost of
- Medicine Cost of medical care
- Assurance (Insurance)
- Coverage, Insurance
- Indemnity insurance
- Insurance coverage
- Insurance industry
- Insurance protection
- Mutual insurance
- Underwriting
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